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dimecres, 22 de desembre de 2010

First, we'll check past simple vs past continuous. Try to do this exercise. Click here. Read the explanation, take notes in your notebook and do the exercise with the 25 sentences.Write five sentences in your notebook to have them as an example.

Next, do these exercises on-line. Write the result of the exercises in your notebook and a comment on your mistakes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

To continue, some activities on directions:

1 ( copy the prepositions of location in your notebook. Translate them into Spanish or Catalan. Do the first and second practice exercisesNext go to the section of `giving directions´and do the activities there ( the mistakes activity is optional).

2 (watch the video and answer these questions. Where does the man want to go? What is funny about the video?

3 ( click on asking and giving directions full screen and do the activities there).

And now, some short movies for you to have a look and take ideas. Click here and here ( make a comment about this story and write your opinion too). In the next web you can have a look to summaries of the stories by Pixar studios. You will have to do something similar in your short movie, so take a look. Click hereThat's all for today. See you next week.

dimarts, 14 de desembre de 2010

This is your last lesson on the computer room this year.Remember to finish the activities you couldn't finish last week first.Next, I want you to do these activities to practise past continuous:Past continuous exercises:1( do all the exercises in the page).

As this is your last lesson on the computers here you have some Christmas activities on-line:

dimecres, 1 de desembre de 2010

First, you must finish the activities of the previous sessions and complete in your notebook what you didn't do (ex. questions about Bethany Hamilton...). Go to this link and check. I'll check your notebooks today to see if you have done it.

Next, in unit 3 we have vocabulary of shops. So here you have some activities to do:

And now, in pairs, you are going to search in internet information about Harrods in London. In paper you'll complete the information and give it to the teacher.

Kind of building:Situation in London:Owner/s:Description: Names of the different sections there and at least two products you can buy in each section: Price of at least 4 products:A curious fact that you find about Harrods:

Complete the chart and then write a text with the information you have collected. Give it to the teacher to mark it.This is the official website. Click here.

If you want to have a look at a video about Harrods click here. Click also here

dissabte, 20 de novembre de 2010

Today you must pay attention to the oral exam if you have to do it.You have also to use your notebook for some of today's activities. Concentrate on the activities and don't disturb your classmates, please:

Instructions for today: First, I advise you to check the previous weeks' on-line lessons to complete your notebook with the activities of the blog you are supposed to have done in your notebook. Today is the last day to give the notebook to the teacher.These are the links to the previous lessons in the blog. Click them and check if you need to complete something in your notebook: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

And now these are the activities for today. Grammar: 1 ( do one of the test at the end of the page. Number 3 is the most difficult, that's good for Solange and Delia), 2,3 (exercise to practise object pronouns), 4 ( write the text correctly in your notebook)

Reading comprehension: 1 ( answer the questions in your notebook. Write the date),2 (complete the text with the words given. You can listen to the text with your headphones)

Videos activities: 1 ( song by Celine Dion. Copy in your notebook four lines of the song that you like and translate them. Copy also six past forms of irregular verbs and write the three forms of the verbs and the meaning into Spanish or Catalan)

divendres, 19 de novembre de 2010

First of all, I ask you to finish with the activities you didn't do last week because you had many options and different activities to do. So, click here. To remember the pronuntiation of the sounds in English click here (these are the examples of the copy I gave to you.A quiz online now ( odd one out). Try it.Next, I'm going to give you different activities and some tips and strategies for your writing.

Grammar: ( too and enough). Do this exercise on-line: 1Now try to do this rewriting exercise as the example given: eg. He isn't old enough to go to the disco= he is too young to go to the disco. Do the same with these sentences. Rewrite them with ' enough´ or 'too'. Write them in your notebook:

a) The weather is too bad to go out. b) The test was too difficult for the students to do .c) He wasn't tall enough to reach the top shelf. d) The coffee was too hot to drink.

Some more varied grammar exercises: Try a test now. Click here.And yet another test to do on conditionals. Click hereAn exercise with ' I WISH ' sentences now. Click here. Another one for you to practise. Click here.

dijous, 11 de novembre de 2010

This week we'll start with the oral exam in pairs. Pay attention to the teacher if she calls for you to do it. Do the exercises and follow the instructions. Don't disturb your classmates, please.

First, you must do the activities you didn't finish in the last sessions. Remember to write in your notebook what I ask you to do there. I'll mark your notebook next week. Click here to go to the last session.

Next, you can do these activities:

1 ( exercise on question words). copy two questions in your notebook and invent an answer for them.

What do you think of comics? Would you like to create your own comic? Try it!It's a different activity for you to do. Click here and impress me. Keep it in-alumnat-llengües estrangeres-anglès-3r eso- 3rF o 3rG - ( write your name, surname and comic when you save it) in the computer. It will have an extra mark for the evaluation.

First of all, you must do and finish your mini-project today. Click here to see the models.

Next, have a look at this video. You have to write in the little notebook eight of the verbs that appear in the video and three sentences translated( escriu en el quadernet 8 verbs que surten al video i tres frases traduides al castellà o català)

Another video for you to watch if you prefer this one.

Time to practise on-line exercises: In the exercises, mark your score (puntuació) in the little notebook)

dimarts, 9 de novembre de 2010

First of all, finish the activities you didn't do last week. You must do the treasure hunt activities in a paper and give it to the teacher at the end of the class. It will have a mark, so try to do it well.Click here to go to the last session.

When you finish click here and practise exercises of the contents in unit 2 on-line. Select the level of 3rd of eso and Extension/extra help. If you want to do a game, click on the unit number. Write down in your notebook the score of the different exercises you do and any comment you want to do.

In Unit 2 you have an interesting reading about Bethany Hamilton.Answer these questions about her in the paper .

Questions: 1. When and where was she born?

2. What did her parents do?

3. When did she win her first surfing contest?

4. What happened in October 2003?

5. Who will be the characters in the film based on her life this year?

dimarts, 2 de novembre de 2010

Welcome to a new session today. First of all,a piece of advice, try to take advantage of these on-line sessions, ask the teacher all your doubts and don't waste the time, please. If not, we're going to do the lessons in class.

www.englishbiz.co.uk/grammar/images/phonetic_alphabet.gif">Try to do these exercises: 1 (remember the phonetic sounds and symbols), 2 (watch the video-tips) and then start with the unit `the sounds of english´. You can do the five units on vowels.), 3 (exercises for you to do. You can choose from the list given. Good luck!).

It's a new week. Today you are going to do a mini project on -line.Start an Open office document. Segueix les instruccions. En cas de que estigueu perdent el temps, vos faré copiar gramàtica del llibre.

Title: MY FAVOURITE STARS.Follow this model and do the same with at least three stars.( segueix el model i fes el mateix sobre tres persones famoses)

eg. Ricky Martin's birthday is on 24th December. His horoscope sign is Capricorn. His real name is Enrique martín Morales. He's from Puerto Rico. He is 38 years old now. He's got short, brown hair and brown eyes. He is a great singer. His most famous song is `Living la vida loca´.His website is rickymartinmusic.com. He's single. He's got two twin babies.

Chenoa's birthday is on 25th June. She is 35 years old now. Her real name is Maria Laura Corradini Falomir. She is from Argentina, but she lives in Spain. She's a singer from the television programme Operación Triunfo. She's got brown eyes and dark hair. `Todo irá bién´ is a famous song she sings.Her horoscope sign is Cancer.

Treasure hunt: click here and select one of these treasure hunts:- The Beatles- The Simpsons-Eminem's biographyWrite the answers in a piece of paper and give it to the teacher at the end of the session to be marked.Activities:

Click here , here or here to create a wacky web tale. Copy it in an open office document adding two pictures and a personal comment. Give it to the teacher next week.

dissabte, 23 d’octubre de 2010

First of all, finish the activities you didn't do last week. Click here. Copy in the paper the answers to the exercises. The teacher will give the paper to you and when you finish all the exercises he will give you a mark.

In this session we are going to do different activities. Some of you, first, have to finish the mini project on animals. Today it is your last day.The others, can start with these activities that introduce unit 2 contents, as it is a revision of contents seen in 2nd of eso.Past simple exercises:

4 (Halloween goes commercial. Write a comment about the video in your notebook)

5 (Halloween). Look at the video and answer these questions: 1. When was Halloween first celebrated and who celebrated it? 2. What does All Hollows Eve mean? 3. When do dances and tricks start to appear and where? 4. Why did the Celts decorate their houses with horrifying things and objects?.

divendres, 22 d’octubre de 2010

Verbal tenses: 1 ( write in a paper the right verbal tenses for each gap and then look at the key. How many mistakes did you have? Do you understand why you made the mistakes? Comment it to your teacher if you have doubts.), 2 (any verbal tense), 3 ( past simple, past continuous or present perfect), 4 ( future tenses), 5 (verb tenses quiz).So/such: 1, 2

Vocabulary: 1 ( pay attention to this explanation and exercise. Copy in your notebook the order of the different kinds of adjectives before a noun and do the practice), 2 ( adjectives used to describe places), 3 (personality adjectives quiz)

Any time left, the teacher will give you the user's password to go to the webpage of the textbook if you want to practise with more exercises or you can follow with phonetics clicking here.See you next day in class.

Possessive 's: 1 (write five of these sentences in the paper your teacher will give you today), 2.

Reading Comprehension: 1 (answer the following questions in a paper the teacher will give you: 1. Who is Alice's husband? 2. Has Alice got a daughter? 3. What's Alice's mother's name? 4. Have Harry and Marjorie got any grandchildren? 5. Who is Alice's niece?

dilluns, 4 d’octubre de 2010

First of all, finish the activities you had to do last week.Next, do these ones in the order they are:

Grammar: 1 ( copy in the notebook the uses of present simple in English with an example of each and do the present simple quiz on line), 2 ( write in your notebook two of the questions in the video), 3 ( ing forms of the verbs), 4 (present continuous verb forms), 5 ( can/can't), 6 ( english test.)Vocabulary:

1 ( copy in your notebook the equipment you need for 4 sports, then, do the practice)

divendres, 24 de setembre de 2010

This is our last session this month. I want you , first, to finish the activities (song activities and games. Solange and Delia too) you didn't do last week.

Now, I'm going to give you some entertaining and varied activities to do:GAMES SECTIONYou'll need your headphones to do this game. Click here ( listen to the times. You have only two minutes to guess all the times). Continue with your headphones on to do this one.

A QUIZ. ( Solange and Delia too)What about a quiz now? Choose one quiz . Click here or here . Write the result in your notebook and any comment you want to observe.

It's time to watch a video. Select one.Click here or here. Watch it and then write a comment about it ( two or three lines).

Write a short opinion about the contents of this session in your notebook or send a comment.Did you enjoy it? Why? Why not? Was it difficult for you? Have you got any suggestion to do?Have a nice weekend and see you next week.

dijous, 23 de setembre de 2010

This is the first session in the computers' room. The next months, we'll practise phonetics on line too, so you'll have to take headphones.

Today, we are going to do grammar exercises on-line and some other activities.

We'll start with some vocabulary: Click here and copy the adjectives that correspond to your zodiac sign. Answer the two questions in your notebook. Now a vocabulary exercise. Click here.

What about a love test right now? Try it. Click here if you want a crazy test ( you need to have an advanced level on English) or here if you want a normal test.

It´s time to do some grammar now. Click here and follow the instructions. Don't do the exercises on perfect tenses because we are going to study them in unit 1.

And now, your homework for next day.

1. Write three lines on two of these topics. a) Advantages of travelling around the world. b) Using internet resources at school. c) Alcohol, drugs and young people/teenagers. d)Dangers of an unbalanced diet. e) Keeping a pet can enrich a child's life in many ways...

2.Write the sentences using the correct form of the verb in brackets:a) I (live ) ___________ in Sudan when the war ( break out) _______________b) Come to visit us. We (not do) _____________ anything special this afternoon.c) This cheese (taste) _____________ awful.d) I'm tired of (stand) ______________ in the queue.e) The shop (have) ____________ a sale this week only.f) Look at those clouds! It (rain) _______________g) Someone is at the door. - ok, I (go) __________ to see who's there.h) By the end of this month We (do) __________________ more than six exams.i)He (not understand) ______________ Russian at all.j) Where ( you be) _______________ at nine last night?- I (be) ____________ at my cousin's home. We (watch) ________________ a football match on tv.3. Rewrite these sentences using the words in brackets. Do not change the meaning.a) I met Bob on my walk to school (as)b) During the speaker's talk, Diana was taking notes (while)c) Yesterday evening, at 7 o'clock, I started to study. I didn't stop until midnight. (9 o'clock)d) Is this your house? (live)e) I have lived in Palma for ten years now ( 1999)f) I like to explore the ancient parts of the world. ( I enjoy...)g) I one took holidays abroad but not any more ( I used...)h) Booking your hotel in advance is advisable. ( I advise you...)

That's all for today, folks. See you in class tomorrow. I hope you have enjoyed the session.

dimecres, 22 de setembre de 2010

Click here ( do the exercises of the introduction unit. Level 3rd of Eso). Copy in your notebook, at least, one exercise answers of each section.

Next, do these entertaining activities:

1 (listen to the song without lyrics first), 2 (listen to the songs with lyrics now)

Try to complete and translate these expressions in the song in your notebook:- I ................................ (tug) at my hair I ................................ (pull) at my clothesI ................................ (try) to keep my coolI ................................ (know) it showsI ................................ (stare) at my feet.My cheeks ................................ (turn) red.I ................................ (search) for the words inside my head .(Cause) I ................................( feel) nervous.(I) ................................ (try) to be so perfectIt ................................ (not do) me any good.It................................ (be) just a waste of timeWhat use ................................ (be) it to youWhat ................................ (be) on my mind. It ................................ (be) coming out.You can use an on-line dictionary as this one Any time left, do these games: 1 (past form of irregular verbs), 2 (animal, vegetable or mineral?)

For Solange and Delia.

You are going to do a treasure hunt today. Choose one of these options. Write the questions and answers in your notebook. Enjoy the activity.1 ( Jesus Christ , a musical)

dijous, 16 de setembre de 2010

Today it is your first lesson in the computers' room. I will check help you if you have problems. You must read the instructions carefully and click on the numbers to do the activities.Green colour: to do it in the notebook ( I will give you one little notebook for the computer sessions). If you have doubts, ask the teacher.

Click on the numbers and follow the instructions:

1 ( listen to the song and practise with the alphabet), 2 ( another song for the alphabet).

3 ( write five english words and click on `test me´ for you to listen to their pronuntiation)

4 (numbers from one to twenty. Listen to the pronuntiation. Write the numbers in the notebook), 5 ( numbers crossword).

copy in your little notebook ten names of objects in the class ( vocabulary activities) with its translation into Spanish or Catalan. Click here and

dimarts, 14 de setembre de 2010

Welcome everybody to a new course. This is going to be a long period of time for you to learn and improve your English. Today we are going to check some contents that are in the previous unit in order to remember what you did last year. Click on the numbers to do the activities and copy in your notebook when required ( green letters).

Grammar: 1 , 2 ( copy the dialogue in your notebook, please), 3 and 4 ( copy one sentence with the verb to be and one sentence with another verb. Do you remember the rule?)

For my teenies, Claudia, Aina and Clara.That's what you have to do: 1 ( vocabulary activ. on vegetables), 2 ( A letter to a friend), 3 ( tests on nouns), 4 ( body parts listening memory game), 5 ( action game), 6 ( style a hero), 7 ( a known song for you to translate with my help).

That's all for this month, folks. Have a nice week.

Two pieces of advice now: try not to be too lazy as Gardfield and don't spend so many hours on the computer or watching tv. It's very bad for your intelligence and brain.

Today is our last session this year, so I think you can do different activities as the ones you usually do during the year. But first of all, I want to tell you that it's been nice to have such good students as many of you are. I hope you have no problems in Bachiller, although it's much more difficult than eso but some of you have good a really good base and excellent working habits, so you needn't worry about your possibilities.

dimarts, 1 de juny de 2010

This is our last computer lesson this year. You have the exam next Monday, so we are going to check some contents in the exam.

First, you have to finish the activities you didn't do last week because the oral exam took some time. So, click here. If you want to help, do the last activity and poor people in third world countries will receive some rice.

Next, we are going to do different exercises of the last units. Click in the numbers: 1 ( do the exercises on the future simple), 2 ( reading comprehension and use of going to. You can do an invitation to a party too and give it to me as an extra essay. With the open office programme you can look for a nice picture for the invitation. Keep it and send it to my email:mbbarcelo@iesmarratxi.org)

To continue, practise with the exercises in this web ( unit 8. Extension/extra help). Going to, must and mustn't. Vocabulary of places to go and food)

To finish, do one or some of these games if you want, depending on your tastes and interests: 1

That's all for today and for this course. Good luck with your last exams and see you on Monday in the exam. Do your best and you'll enjoy a good summer.

dimecres, 26 de maig de 2010

Today, first finish the activities you didn't do two weeks ago( click here) and last week ( click here).

When you finish this, do the following activities to practise contents of unit 8: first, have a look at the explanation and the activities in this web . Next, do these exercises on-line: 1 ( active to passive, change only the ones which are in present, will, present perfect and past simple), 2 ( do exercises of unit 8 extension/extra help. level 4th eso.)

Revision exercises now. Can you do this exercise without having any mistakes? Try it. Click here